EP 1016003 A1 20000705 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERYING AND SEMANTIC SEARCHING OF AN INFORMATION DATABASE
Title (en)
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERYING AND SEMANTIC SEARCHING OF AN INFORMATION DATABASE
Title (de)
VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUM ABFRAGEN MIT NATÜRLICHER SPRACHE UND ZUM SEMANTISCHEN SUCHEN EINER INFORMATIONDATENBANK
Title (fr)
PROCEDE ET DISPOSITIF D'INTERROGATION EN LANGUE NATURELLE ET RECHERCHE SEMANTIQUE D'UNE INFORMATION DANS UNE BASE DE DONNEES
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 9722943 W 19971204
- US 76069196 A 19961204
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO9825217A1] The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for receiving a user's query in natural language (e.g., English) form, searching an electronic database for sentences that may provide semantically meaningful answers to the query, identifying those sentences that are deemed to answer the question, and quantifying the degree to which the sentences answer the question.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G06F 17/30 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
G06F 16/24522 (2018.12); G06F 16/3344 (2018.12)
Citation (search report)
See references of WO 9825217A1
Designated contracting state (EPC)
DE FR GB
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 9825217 A1 19980611; AU 5381698 A 19980629; CA 2273902 A1 19980611; EP 1016003 A1 20000705
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 9722943 W 19971204; AU 5381698 A 19971204; CA 2273902 A 19971204; EP 97950947 A 19971204